Company Growth and Competitive Strategy in Automation Sector

The company demonstrates strong execution and confidence, boosting investor relations and expanding its subscription model.

### Confidence in Execution: Navigating Change and Competition
* 📈  The company is taking on more roles and responsibilities, reflecting a **desire from investors for certainty and confidence** during this period of change.
* 💰  This quarter demonstrated strong performance, beating metrics across the board with a **$25 million increase in operating margin and free cash flow**, showcasing the company's ability to **execute efficiently**.
* 💵  Additionally, the company raised its authorization for stock buybacks to **$1 billion**, further projecting **confidence in its execution capabilities** during investor discussions.
* 🏆  Competing effectively against rivals like ServiceNow and Salesforce, the company closed the **largest test automation deal in its history** and expanded its cloud platform, contributing **nearly $850 million to annual recurring revenue (ARR)**.
* 📊  The customer base has grown significantly, with a **15% year-over-year increase** in customers generating over **$1 million**, and a **120% expansion rate** in customers between **$100,000 and $1 million**.
* 🚀  The company anticipates continued growth in its subscription model, with a **19% increase in annual recurring revenue** and a net dollar expansion rate of **115%**, indicating **strong customer commitment**.
* 🤝  As the new CEO, the focus will be on **execution and prioritization**, while leveraging a strong finance team to **drive the company's vision forward** amidst challenging times.
* 🛠️  Internal automation processes, with **over 350 live automations**, are enhancing productivity and efficiency, allowing the company to maintain **customer-centricity as a key priority**.

You're taking on more roles and responsibilities. We're seeing an investor base that wants certainty, that wants confidence in this period of change. You're showing execution. Can you give them that at the moment? Yeah. And I think this quarter was a good testament to that, Caroline. We beat our metrics across the board from what we got into last quarter. We raised our overall operating margin in free cash flow by $25 million, which projects our confidence in our ability to execute both efficiently and at the same time with minimal distraction on the top line results that we're going to continue to drive. And then we've also executed well against our by that we increased our authorization for another $500 million, bringing to $1,000,000,000 in total. I think that really projects the confidence that we have in the company and our ability to execute, and that's translating well in the investor discussions that we've had today.

What about executing against your competition as Jim? Your role before was with about customer excellence. And look, ServiceNow, Salesforce, they are rolling out agents that fuel Productivity Games. I'm interested to see your ability to compete here. Yeah, it's a great question. We feel very good about actually our position and the execution of our field in competing. We closed the largest test automation deal in the history of the company in one of the world's largest tech companies. We've expanded our cloud platform significantly. You saw that cross-sell. Almost $850 million of ARR are now into our overall top-line results. And when you look across our customer base, we've increased our customers greater than $1,000,000 by 15% year over year. And that cohort of customers, or customers greater than $100,000 to $1,000,000, is expanding at 120%. That shows that we're winning in the market.

There's increased competition in personal productivity, you know, smaller, hourly, mundane tasks type automations. But where we're competing and where we're where we're winning is in large scale enterprise automations and where AI and automation come together, that is what customers want. And we are winning in those types of use cases, as evidenced by the demo that we actually provided in our earnings call that shows the impact that we can have with health care customers across the industry for a simple use case that can save them hundreds of millions of dollars. A shame. Congratulations on being given a second job on top of the one you've already got. CFO and CEO now. I actually want to talk to you about something I think we probably looked at earlier in the year, which is this bigger picture of license to subscription. There are lots of people that watch this program where that is something that they will confront each day because they

either administer software agreements or whatever. Can you just extrapolate out from your earnings and what that trend looks like for you guys going forward? Yeah, when you look at our, you know, we really look at our annual recurring revenue as akin to our subscription model, and that is growing 19%. 1,000,000,005 five upscale. So we really look at that as a very good indicator of where we are as a company and how customers look at us as a long-term part of their architecture. The second piece is our net dollar expansion rate that is still at 115% of the scale that we're at. So when you look at, you know, customers buying in not just for one-time type project, but really subscribing to us, it's because we provide continuous and long-term value in their enterprise processes. So as you extrapolate that forward and you say 115% Nadella's expansion rate continuing to launch new products such

as autopilot, that is, that brings natural language processing for automation developers and puts that in their hands and expanding our platform into test automation and continuing to drive more and more complicated use cases. We feel very good about the trajectory of that subscription model for us. Azeem, how's your day today going to be different now that you're CEO as well? Look, I think I have a great team in finance that has done so much and has built a great foundation. Really. Daniel and I look at execution and driving prioritization and then dividing and conquering where he can spend time continuing to lead us into this advantage wave that is there. And agenda is such a powerful wave that requires both go to market and product innovation and continuing our leadership in that area is great for me to be able to help Daniel and help the team by providing day to day ownership over the enabling functions that really drive our ability to execute against our broader

vision. That's where I'm going to spend more and more of my time. It's frankly an honor and a really good part to be a part of the larger team of you at that. It's a hard time because you're cutting people. How much is I able to offset and replace some of that talent? Yeah. Look, I think first is you're right. It's never easy to part with employees. And at the same time, I think driving continuing to drive shareholder value is important for us and efficiency and making sure we have streamlined processes that are there. I think air is a really important part of us. We actually use our platform internally more than 350 Automations live, doing everything from invoice processing to even complex areas like vendor engagements. That is a big part of our productivity. With autopilot, we're able to launch that into other areas, such as our sales processes. And I think that efficiency gives us not

just not just productivity in dollars, but really of mind share to spend more time with customers, and customer centricity is a really key and in of Daniel's priority for the company as we go forward.

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Demonstrating Confidence and Execution Amid Change

The company is taking on more responsibilities and has shown strong execution, beating metrics and raising operating margin and free cash flow by $25 million.

They have increased their authorization for share buybacks to $1 billion, reflecting confidence in their ability to execute.

The company's competitive position is strong, closing the largest test automation deal in its history and expanding its cloud platform, resulting in a 15% year-over-year increase in customers over $1 million.

The company is focusing on large-scale enterprise automations, where AI and automation intersect, and is seeing success in these use cases.

Their annual recurring revenue, which they view as their subscription model, is growing at 19%, indicating strong customer demand for long-term partnerships.

The net dollar expansion rate is at 115%, reflecting customers' commitment to subscribing for continuous value in their enterprise processes.

Expanding Automation and Leadership Changes

The company is focusing on natural language processing for automation developers and expanding into test automation.

Azeem, the new CEO, plans to drive execution and prioritization while providing day-to-day ownership of enabling functions.

The company is also using its own platform for internal automation, aiming to streamline processes and drive efficiency.

The company is focusing on spending more time with customers to enhance customer centricity.

This shift in mind share is a key priority for Daniel as the company moves forward.

The goal is to create a stronger connection with customers and meet their needs effectively.